Is China colonizing Africa?
Africa International with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre present two public lectures on the growing economic relationship between African and Caribbean countries and China.
The first lecture on 5 May will be given by Professor Adams Bodomo of the University of Vienna. Professor Bodomo has lectured and published widely on the topic of Africa - China relations. The second lecture - date to be announced - will be given by Ambassador, the Honourable Professor Richard L. Bernal, OJ, Counsellor for Jamaica Inter-American Bank and Professor of Economics at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies.
Speaker
Professor Adams Bodomo
Role: Professor of African Studies
Organisation: University of Vienna
Biography: Prof. Dr. Adams Bodomo is professor of African Studies at the University of Vienna, where he directs the University’s research centre for Global African Diaspora Studies (GADS). He is one of the leading experts on African diaspora communities in China. He earned his BA and MA from the University of Ghana, Legon and his PhD in Linguistics and African Studies from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim Professor Bodomo has served as lecturer, visiting scholar, or professor at many universities across four continents including the University of Ghana, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Hong Kong, where he started and directed the first African Studies programme in southern China before moving to the University of Vienna in 2013.
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Performance Space, Manchester Central Library
St Peter's Square
Manchester